Corset-fastening



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CORSET FASTENING. No. 311,995. Patented Feb. 10, 1885.

Wifi s E s a 5-, Iq /EQiU-K UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PERLEY LAFLIN, OF WARREN, ASSIGNOR TO THEODORE O. BATES, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET- FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,995, dated February 10 1885.

Application filed October 27, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PERLEY LAFLIN, of Warren, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Clasps or Fastening Devices for Corset-Steels, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention consists in a fastening composed of a slotted plate provided with a camshaped button or disk pivoted thereon, and adapted to be acted upon at one edge by astud as the latter is moved in the slot of the plate, the stud turning the button or disk on its cen ter orpivot, causing the heel of the'button or plate to swing across the slot behind the stud,

the latter, by its action on the front end of the button or disk, holding the heel thereof across the said slot, as will be described.

Figure 1 represents one of my improved clasps or fastenings, the headed stud beingin the enlarged part of the elongated contracted slot of the eye-plate, ready to be moved into the narrow outer end of the slot; and Fig. 2 shows the same parts with the stud in the smaller or outward part of the slot of the eyeplate.

The part a has attached to it a slotted plate, b, upon which, at c, is pivoted a button or cam plate or disk, d, having a heel, 2, and point 3, the said cam-plate being made movable upon its pivot by the stud e, fastened to the part or steel 9, as the latter is moved from one to the other end of the slot in the plate b, or from the position Figs. 1 to 2, the stud 6, when in the outer end of the said slot, acting upon the (No model point 3 and holding the heel 2 across the slot sufficiently to prevent the backward move ment of the stud unless sufficient pressure is 0 exerted on the button to overcome its friction, which latter may be regulated and made more or less by more or less upsetting the rivet d,- or, if desired, the point 3 may be made to yield alittle as a spring and enter one of a series of small indentations or depressions, 4, in the plate I). The edge of the button or plate a acted upon by the stud is beveled to pass under the head of the stud, and the heel of the said plate is concaved, as shown best in Fig. 1, to correspond with the circumference of the stud under its head when the heel of the plate--- the latter having been acted upon at its point by the studis moved against the stud under its head, to hold the same in one end of the slot.

I claim In a fastening for corset-steels, the steel (1, provided with the slotted plate, and the cam plate or disk (I, pivoted thereon, combined with the steel 9, having the attached headed stud, which acts upon and turns the said camplate, the latter thereafter acting to hold the said stud in one end of the slot of the said plate, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

hi. PERLEY 5 LAFLIN. mark.

Witnesses:

FRANK W. RUGGLES, HERBERT L. ADAMS. 

